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Advancing Cover Crop Adoptions Research Agenda

Build soil health, corn, cover crop research, cover crops, National Wildlife Federation, nutrient management, Practical farmers of Iowa, soybeans

Advancing Cover Crop Adoptions Research Agenda Sarah Carlson, Midwest Cover Crop Research Coordinator with Practical Farmers of Iowa and Ryan Stockwell, Agriculture Program Manager with the National Wildlife Federation have written an agenda that will help researching cover crops be more scientific over the next six to eight years. The research agenda is published […]

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Fall Cover Crop Management

Build soil health, corn and cover crops, cover criops or tile or both, cover crops, Cover Crops in the upper Midwest, manure, nutrient management, prevent plant, soil biology, soil health

While in southern Minnesota in early September 2013 I was asked when a farmer should plow his cover crop field this fall because he needs the fields to be “black” this winter in preparation for next spring. I shuddered. There I was in a beautiful field of cover crops that are jump-starting some biology on

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